Photos by Robin » holidays http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog Blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:46:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Mine. http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/mine/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/mine/#comments Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:40:37 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=3922 Here’s our year-in-review book for 2010!   I’m so glad to have this done and crossed off my “to do” list!!  yeah!  I even ordered a set of 3 accordion books for us  and the parents (but not thru Shutterfly, thru somewhere else…)  Can’t wait to see how those turn out!

————–>Here’s the link to our book in the Shutterfly gallery.  OH – and BEST PART YET????  You can buy pre-paid Shutterfly cards at the photo counter at  Target – you get FREE shipping (normally $7.99) and I got to use my discount!  Plus since I put everything on my Target Visa, I also got another 5% off!  SCORE!   Anyway….the cover idea I got from a calendar I saw on this site.

And here is our Christmas card for this year!  Photo credit goes to the amazingly talented Melissa! The rest of the credit for the card is as follows:

  • background paper – HERE-  (recolored from the Bella paper collection)
  • frames & flower artwork – HERE – (from freebies available to members – thanks Katie!  LOVE your site!)
  • live in peace artwork – HERE - Sande Krieger’s Season’s Greetings  (recolored & saturation/opacity changed)
  • fonts:  Renaissance, typewriter & rage (’10)

And here’s Buddy & Amber – NOT too happy to be dressed up for the holidays!  Card template from HERE - the “12 Days of Christmas” collection. I also ordered a 24×36 gallery-wrapped canvas for our front room.  It looks great!  And even though that’s pretty big, it STILL looks small on our wall!  haha!Oh, and I put together a pocket calendar (4×6″) for us & my parents – kit is from HERE.  I am printing them as 4×6 photos, then getting them  spiral bound at the top of the photo (at Office Max). I know I don’t tell my family this enough, but I love and appreciate every one of them!   I couldn’t ask for a nicer family!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!  :-)

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/mine/feed/ 4 4th of July 2010! http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/4th-of-july-2010/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/4th-of-july-2010/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:53:17 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2205 We celebrated the 4th a day early this year, so today totally didn’t feel like a holiday!  haha!  Here’s the kids getting into the holiday spirit! (used Sheye’s “Ruby shoes” action here) Our neighbor Laurie brought over these beautiful flowers!  She’s always SO thoughtful – thank you Laurie! We hosted our neighborhood party this year and boy, did we ever have a great turn out!  Some of the neighbors started out with a friendly softball game (despite the high humidity and 90 degree heat!)  The kids alternated playing wiffle ball, doing the bean bag toss, shooting waterguns, and blowing bubbles!  Once it got dark, we practiced trying to write names with sparklers!  haha!  Of course we shot off a few fireworks too but I didn’t get any good ones of those.  oh well!  (p.s. the blue one is actually a little flashlight thing that came with some glow-in-the-dark Easter eggs that Claire hid in the back yard) Here’s a quick layout I did with Heather Ann’s awesome products!  I used the “America the Beautiful“, “Great American Holiday” and “Stars and Stripes” kits – as well as the Quick Fill layout #58.  (fireworks photo was actually taken in 2006… ;-) )   Thanks to all our friends and neighbors that made it to the party!  We had a great time hosting!  :-)

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